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0 pointsdontbenebby3y ago0 comments

> Ever heard of Sandstorm by Darude? Yeah that has nothing to do with this

Yes, I have. I still remember some girl I dragged into my student slum shared house widening her eyes and asking "Do you have an older brother or something? Why is your library a bunch of Nine Inch Nails or whatever? That's a very old album." and I immediately shot back something to the effect of "I pirate everything because I'm not some rich bitch from Fox Chapel -- I just look at what's well seeded, those weird Russian pill vendors have good taste in EDM, and your stupid CD store got too good at spotting shoplifters."

(Yeah, that also has nothing to do with this, but HN needs to have more creative nonfiction and less "Uh sir, this comment is not appropriate for LinkedIn" energy.)

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Terretta3y ago· 1 in thread

> good taste in EDM … HN needs to have more creative nonfiction

So …

“Sandstorm was fucking inescapable in the SoCal rave scene in the late nineties, to the point that it became sort of a joke. Even if you went to an event where you could be reasonably confident that it wouldn't be played (a jungle or gabber event, for instance), you'd still hear some asshole blasting it from his car while you were in line.”

”I heard it being played from art cars twice at Burning Man this year. I'm choosing to believe that the perpetrators were doing so ironically, because the alternative is to despise/pity them.“

https://www.metafilter.com/145171/Ubiquitous-Sandstorm

// Welcome to MF.

dontbenebbyOP3y ago

Thanks for this. I had a friend who used to dance to it at parties. We would then all take turns ding the same. But this was in like... 2009.

I don't think he was in the SoCal rave scene, but he was a huge gearhead. Big fan of his "vee dub".

(I never could grok anything mechanical, and never really had stable housing, so I turned into a weird little cyberpunk so I could keep everything on a laptop or hard drive I carry with me)

ASpaceCowboi3y ago

Agreed - And i love your story. Thank you for sharing!

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